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sounding down the long corridors, and the distant voices responding, 'Way
for the King!'
He even learned to enjoy sitting in throned state in council, and seeming to be
something more than the Lord Protector's mouthpiece. He liked to receive
Great ambassadors and their gorgeous trains, and listen to the affectionate
messages they brought from illustrious monarchs who called him 'brother.'
Oh, happy Tom Canty, late of Offal Court!
He enjoyed his splendid clothes, and ordered more; he found his four hundred
Servants too few for his proper grandeur, and trebled them. The adulation of
Salaaming courtiers came to be sweet music to his ears. He remained kind and
Gentle, and a sturdy and determined champion of all that were oppressed, and
He made tireless war upon unjust laws; yet upon occasion, being offended, he
Could turn upon an earl, or even a duke, and give him a look that would make
him tremble. Once, when his royal 'sister,' the grimly holy Lady Mary, set
Herself to reason with him against the wisdom of his course in pardoning so
Many people who would otherwise be jailed, or hanged, or burned, and
reminded him that their august late father's prisons had sometimes contained
As high as sixty thousand convicts at one time, and that during his admirable
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